[mythtv-users] No hotplug directory. Where does the firmware go?

Matt Mossholder matt at mossholder.com
Mon Mar 20 19:32:33 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 04:25 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> I am trying to build a mythtv box on a new install of Ubuntu dapper
> (6.04). This uses the 2.6.15 kernel and does NOT use hotplug. It
> apparently uses udev instead.
> 
> I don't understand all the issues involved here, but in all of the
> information online I read about putting the ivtv firmware into the
> hotplug directory. So.... what if you don't have a hotplug directory?
> Is there another place to put the firmware? Any ideas on how to work
> with this?
> 
> Craig

/lib/firmware

:)

		--Matt

P.S. if you plan on using XvMC with Dapper, make sure you apply the new
libxvmc that was released today. It resolves a bug I found where the
XvMC library was looking for the wrapper config in ./XConfigDir, rather
than /etc/X11, because of bad processing of the $XConfigDir variable.





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